Offline installer from layout still wants to download 6.27GB and requires access to internet

Question

I have created offline layout for Visual Studio Professional with following command

vs_setup --layout . --lang en-US --includeOptional

Which has downloaded 54.5GB

Next I run this installer on a fresh install of windows 10

1- It immediately starts installing some random stuff that I didn't ask for (about 700 packages)

2- I interrupt the installation by clicking pause and Installer closes immediately.

3- I run the installer again from same layout folder vs_setup.exe

4- It shows the a screen with two progress bar downloading and installing. after few seconds both of them immediately fill up to 100% and installer closes.

5- This time I run the installer from Start Menu, it runs and again starts installing that random stuff that I didn't ask for.

6- I interrupt by pressing pause then click on modify to select what I need to install which is not ios development but .NET for web.

7- Now Installer tries to download 6.27GB online and setup get stuck in 15%

Question:

How do I create the layout so that visual studio does not try to download again in a PC that doesn't have access to internet?

Answer 1

Hello @- -,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

I notice that you used --includeOptional parameter. Following is the description of this parameter:

Optional: During an install or modify command, this parameter includes the optional components for any workloads that are installed, but not the recommended components. The workloads are specified either with --allWorkloads or --add.

As you didn’t use --add or --allWorkloads parameter, but used --includeOptional parameter, I guess some packages were not downloaded correctly into the layout.

If you want to download a complete local layout of Visual Studio, I suggest moving this generated layout back to the machine with network and run following command: vs_setup --layout C:\xxxx\xxxx --verify --fix, then move the layout back to the machine without network and try to install VS again.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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